Value of Work Quotes

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Labor is no disgrace.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Sweat equity is the best equity.

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Most of what I do does not save lives.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.